were you taken? so the procedure was quite something, and lyse would know this well, but a journey we were staying in one of the hotels that journalists staying in the centre of kyiv and a journey that i m told normally takes ten minutes took nearly an hour. as we were changing, cars taken past checkpoints. a lot of men with guns, a lot of anti tank obstacles. eventually, we got to a big metal gate. we went through, and the the aide who was accompanying us said, and i remember it very vividly said, welcome to our fortress. and then, we went into the fortress down, down, up, down, all over dimmed corridors. we had to leave not just all of our electronics, but everything, including our pens, anything that could potentially give away our location. and we emerged out of out of the dimness of the corridors to a room that you will recognise, because it s the room that is used for those zoom exchanges that president zelensky has, you know, when he speaks to parliaments, when he speaks to
the interview and where were you taken? so the procedure was quite something, and lyse would know this well, but we were staying in one of the hotels that journalists staying in the centre of kyiv, and a journey that i m told normally takes ten minutes took nearly an hour. as we were changing, cars taken past checkpoints. a lot of men with guns, a lot of anti tank obstacles. eventually, we got to a big metal gate. we went through, and the aide who was accompanying us said, and i remember it very vividly, said, welcome to our fortress. and then, we went into the fortress down, down, up, down, all over dimmed corridors. we had to leave not just all of our electronics, but everything, including our pens, anything that could potentially give away our location. and we emerged out of out of the dimness of the corridors to a room that you will recognise, because it s the room that is used for those zoom exchanges that president zelensky has when he speaks to parliaments, when he speaks to p
is a target, as well what was the procedure of actually arriving to do the interview and where were you taken? so the procedure was quite something, and lyse would know this well, but we were staying in one of the hotels that journalists stay in the centre of kyiv, and a journey that i m told normally takes ten minutes took nearly an hour. as we were changing cars, taken past checkpoints. a lot of men with guns, a lot of anti tank obstacles. eventually, we got to a big metal gate. we went through, and the aide who was accompanying us said, and i remember it very vividly said, welcome to our fortress. and then, we went into the fortress down, down, up, down, all over dimmed corridors. we had to leave not just all of our electronics, but everything, including our pens, anything that could potentially give away our location. and we emerged out of
to a big metal gate. we went through, and the the aide who was accompanying us said, and i remember it very vividly said, welcome to our fortress. and then, we went into the fortress down, down, up, down, all over dimmed corridors. we had to leave not just all of our electronics, but everything, including our pens, anything that could potentially give away our location. and we emerged out of out of the dimness of the corridors to a room that you will recognise, because it s the room that is used for those zoom exchanges that president zelensky has when he speaks to parliaments, when he speaks to people around the world. and frankly, it looks a little bit like a corporate meeting room, you know, a white formica table, modern office chairs. and we were sitting in this room, and suddenly there was a bit of a kerfuffle. and in walk several people with guns and president zelensky, and he s, as you heard from that clip, he s incredibly relaxed. i mean, just extraordinarily relaxed, authent